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We catch up to the action with approximately 20,000 in the pot and the board reading 
. There are two players in the hand... one is all in while the other has exactly one chip in front of him, a yellow 1,000. He doesn't think long before tossing his cards in the muck and has some work to do if he is going to make it through this flight. It is No Limit though, so anything is possible.
Level: 4
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
The players are now on their first 15-minute break of the day.
The flop read 
when a player in the small blind led out for 2,200.
His opponent wasted little time in moving his entire stack forward, risking his last 15,475 with the all-in wager.
With the action back on him, the small blind agonized over his decision, first asking the dealer for a count of the bet to him before counting out the calling chips and sizing up the remainder.
Eventually, after about two minutes of deliberation the small blind player called off to leave himself with only 8,000 or so. When he did, the all-in player immediately tabled his 
for trip jacks with an ace kicker. The small blind player could only muster the 
for an inferior trips, and the river bricked off to leave him with the second-best hand.
Asked for his name as he dragged the pot, the winner replied brusquely with the word "Sing," before retreating to the refuge of his headphones and hoodie.
Today's second starting flight has already spilled over into the Borgata Poker Room, as the Signature Room where the event is officially being played has been filled to capacity.
With 26 tournament tables in play here in the Signature Room, and roughly a dozen over in the Poker Room, the numbers would suggest that yesterday's turnout of 359 total entries has already been exceeded.
Sure enough, after consulting with the Borgata's respected tournament director Tab Duchateau, the tally has inched over the 360 mark in terms of entry at here in the third level of play.
Local grinder Timothy Little just took his seat to mark his first crack at the Borgata Spring Poker Open.
Little was a fixture at the last series here at the Borgata, playing in more than a dozen events during the Winter Poker Open here in January.
We also covered Little as he made a deep run in the recent HPO Charles Town Regional Championship, where he dueled with World Series of Poker mainstays Chris Moneymaker and Lee Childs.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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25,000
25,000
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25,000 |
Coolers can only take place with certain circumstances. Two or more players need to have the exact right cards to ignite a flame, and the right combination of community cards can add fuel for the blast.
Ben Soltz was the beneficiary of this scenario moments ago, eliminating two players right in front of us at the PokerNews Live Reporting desk. We arrived on the turn, and the board was 
. All of the money was in the middle, and the cards were on their backs.
Soltz: 
Opponent 1: 
Opponent 2: 
One player turned top two, another added a pair of fives to their flush draw, but the case king gave Soltz a dominating set. The 
bricked off on the river, and a wave of chips was pushed Soltz's way. He's already up to 55,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
55,000 |
One table in the corner of the tournament room was noticeably short handed. This was nearly an hour into play today and there were three players sitting there. The same three that had been there since play started. One of them was Catherine Dever who took 3rd place in a tournament here last September (Lee Childs finished 2nd in that event). "This is tough," she said. "You can only pick up the blinds and antes when you have a hand most of the time." Dever asked the floor what was going on and they brought some players in quickly and all is good.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
26,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
Level: 3b
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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25,000 | |
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25,000 | |
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25,000 | |
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